Christianity Today

1) Historically speaking: Pilat, the Chief Priest@mob -where the problem? 2) Matth's "blood on us" is just NT's truth of Gen 4:10 but it is the Principle referring to all time@all humankind= the bloodshed of innocent must be revenged by... God and not people.Look at the history of any nation@everyone's life: Socrates@Athens, Pitagoras@Somoza,.... 3) Does my sin (in 20th cent) kill Jesus? No:I was not among the mob in Jerusalem;Yes: if I commit a sin as in Matt 25: 42nn Consequently, for ex. killing unborn must bear consequences also in this life

It does't matter who killed Jesus! Jesus asked God to forgive them. Jesus died for us...that was God's plan...someone had to do it. It's irrelevant in regards to the reason Jesus died. We need to praise God that His plan cannot be thwarted and let go of things we can't understand and just give it to Him.

Maybe Luke's 2020 hindsight will help clarify this matter. Acts 4:27-28 (New International Version, ©2011) 27 Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. 28 They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.

Very wise for the pope to devote an entire book to clarifying the true Christian stance on the question of who killed Jesus. I remember hearing my own mother make that crazy statement about the Jews killing Jesus, and even though I was only about 10, I knew enough scripture to realize the untruth of pointing the finger at an ethnic group. But, some people probably still need to learn the facts, plus the Catholic Church needs to make this stand loud and clear due to past ambiguities.

This reminds me when people were trying to claim that "The Passion of the Christ" was anti-Semitic (although sadly it turned out Mel Gibson was) but the film itself I thought should have had Italians Americans more in an uproar then the Jews, it was far less flattering to the Romans.